Peter Ayodele Fayose was governor of Ekiti State

Ekiti State

Ekiti State is a state in southwest Nigeria, created on October 1, 1996 alongside five other new states by military dictator General Sani Abacha...

 in Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

 from 29 May 2003 to 16 October 2006,

Early life

Fayose attended Olivet Baptist High School

Olivet Heights, Oyo, Nigeria

Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo, Nigeria , located on a hillcrest named Olivet Heights, was founded by American Southern Baptist Mission on 29 January 1945 on its original site in the premises of the old Baptist mission house at Oke-Isokun, Oyo, Oyo State where Rev...

, Oyo

Oyo, Nigeria

Oyo is a city in Oyo State, Nigeria, founded as the capital of the Oyo Kingdom in the 1830s and known to its people as 'New Oyo' to distinguish it from the former capital to the north, 'Old Oyo' ) which had been deserted as a result of rumors of war. Its inhabitants are mostly of the Yoruba people...

. He conducted one of the most sought after medical outreach programmes during his political campaign in 2001.

He grew up in Ibadan, Oyo State, went through thick and thin to later became a formidable person in the history of Ekiti State.